Acceptance Quotes

"Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes." "You cannot find peace by avoiding life" "I treat everything that happens in life, good or bad, as formative" "There is nothing essentially wrong with the feeling of a profound sadness that accompanies loss" "Try not to resist the changes which come your way. Instead let life live through you." "You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other" "Love truth, but pardon error." "Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would, but that's OK" "The universe doesn’t allow perfection." "As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." "The most exquisite paradox: as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. " "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight." "A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial until finally it becomes what everybody knows" "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it" "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." "Blessed is the man who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed" "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float"